The Hungarian prime minister, echoing the rhetoric of some Brexiteers, has declared it is all a
plot to create a super-state.
Victor Orban has said: "If we want to stop the mass migration, first we must put the brakes on Brussels," adding that he would say the unsayable.
"It is forbidden to say that the arriving masses from other cultures are a threat to our way of life, our culture, our habits and our Christian traditions."
That perhaps goes to the dark heart of the problem with this deal, with its promise of visa-free travel for Turks.
Those worried by a seeming endless flow of Syrian refugees are not reassured by the idea of swapping that reality for the possibility of open access to Turkey's 75 million people and dangling eventual EU membership in front of them.
The Turks, too, are willing to work for lower wages and, in the minds of some, representatives of an alien culture.
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